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incitation

  • /ɪnsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ UK

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

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Borrowed from Middle French incitation.

noun incitations

  1. countable, uncountable The act of inciting or moving to action.
  2. countable, obsolete, uncountable Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive. A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation[…].

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noun act of inciting or moving to action

Portuguêsincitação
Françaisincitation

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@misc{incitation_2026,
  title = {incitation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/incitation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}